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Re: dip obsolete in potato?



On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 10:24:51AM -0700, Gary Hennigan wrote:
> While it may seem unbelievable to some, one of our dialup servers at
> work still requires SLIP, as opposed to PPP. So I was a bit disturbed
> to see that the "dip" package disappeared from potato upon my latest
> apt-get upgrade.

But the package wasn't removed from you rmachine, I hope.
You can still use the package in slink.

> I've been using dip for many years now and haven't
> had to touch it in years. Perhaps something replaced it in those years
> and I didn't notice it?
> 
> Anyone else use dip, or is anyone else still stuck using SLIP and
> doing so without dip? If so I'd like to hear about your solution.

You can still use slattach in netbase.


fab
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